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The CO 2 Balance of Unproductive Aquatic Ecosystems
Abstract
Community respiration ( R ) rates are scaled as the two-thirds power of the gross primary production ( P ) rates of aquatic ecosystems, indicating that the role of aquatic biota as carbon dioxide sources or sinks depends on its productivity. Unproductive aquatic ecosystems support a disproportionately higher respiration rate than that of productive aquatic ecosystems, tend to be heterotrophic ( R > P ), and act as carbon dioxide sources. The average P required for aquatic ecosystems to become autotrophic ( P > R ) is over an order of magnitude greater for marshes than for the open sea. Although four-fifths of the upper ocean is expected to be net heterotrophic, this carbon demand can be balanced by the excess production over the remaining one-fifth of the ocean.
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- Authors
- Duarte, C. M., & Agustı́, S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1998-07-10
- Volume
- 281
- Issue
- 5374
- Pages
- 234-236
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2010576264
- Cited by
- 346
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 10.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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